Abraham Moses Luncz

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Abraham Moses Luncz (December 9, 1854–1918) (Hebrew: אברהם לונץ) was a Russian scholar and editor born at Kovno, Russia. He went when very young to Jerusalem. Luncz, who suffered from early blindness, founded, in conjunction with Dr. Koisewski, an institution for the blind at Jerusalem.

In the exploration of the Holy Land, Luncz has rendered great services from the historical, geographical, and physical standpoints, through his guide-books for Palestine, his Palestine annuals, and his Jerusalem almanac:

• Netibot Ẓiyyon we-Yerushalayim: Topography of Jerusalem and Its Surroundings (vol. i., 1876)
• Jerusalem, Jahrbuch zur Beförderung einer Wissenschaftlich Genauen Kenntnis des Jetzigen und des Alten Palästina (Hebrew and German, 6 vols., 1881-1903, Hebrew: ירושלים, שנתון לידיעת ארץ ישראל)
• Literarischer Palästina-Almanach (Hebrew; since 1894).

He owned a Hebrew printing-press, from which he issued a number of works by Palestinian scholars, Estori Farḥi's Kaftor wa-Feraḥ and Schwarz's Tebu'ot ha-Areẓ being the first works published. As of 1904, he had in press a new edition of the Jerusalem Talmud with commentary and introduction.

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• Sokolow Sefer Zikkaron, p. 184.

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• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.